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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
ST.
PAUE'S
COM
MERGE.

Inc JODDerS or 81.
81. Paul have no reason to
[ASES feel dissatisfied with the
,1ERCE results of 1887, and, as to-
day they lay aside the
cares of business and the daily grind of
work and join their families and friends
around their Christmas tables and fire.
sides, they will probably have as few
regrets over the disappointments of the
old, and as few forebOdings for the new
year as have ever been associated with
the day since st. Paul took rank as a
jobbing city. s5a.
Not all the anticipations of a year
ago have been realized. Crops were
short in some sections and low prices
have generally prevailed, thus greatly
reducing the purchasing power of
large area of country. Low priceSand
corresponding profits for goods have
ruled, and strikes in many factories, and
other serious hindrances have also
added to the troubles and losses of the
jobbers. And the interstate commerce
law must also not be overlooked among
the new as well as the more prominent
causes of daily concern. 80 ,' =.
But st. Paul has doubled its impor-
lance as jobbing center, and its infitI-
ence on the trade of the country has
never been so strong as now. In the de-
velopment of the New Northwest
jObbing point not far remote and with
good facilities for shipping in all direc-
lions is vital necessity, and st. Paul
meets these requirements and all others
that go to make up commercial city,
and the bonds that hold together it and
the great territory lying westward from
the forty-third parallel to Manitoba,
clear to the Pacific coast, are strength
ened every year. One evidence of
this is seen in the fact that
an unusual number of the better
class of travelling statesmen from the
Eastern and other cities competing for
the trade oil the Northwest have applied
during the past year for situations with
st. Paul houses, the principal reason
for desiring change being the advan-
tage of our location. This feature has
probably been noticed by every jObber
in the city, and it is worth much more
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
THE
1t makes me smile to
compare the dry goods
DRY GOODStrade of thirty years ago.

hG Ii lIldhGS HE SI1lle 10
compare the dry goods
DRY GOODStrade of thirty years ago.
when | came to st. Paul,
TRADE. with that of to-day. In
those days we only had few retail dry
goods stores. None of them were pre-
pared to sell goods at wholesale, and. in
fact, would have broken up the stock
then carried by them if any had at
tempted to sell bill at wholesale, say
of $500 to 1000. To my certain knowl-
edge there was not a dry goods
stock in st. Paul representing $4,000,
Notwithstanding the fact that we
had to lay in a stock late in
the fall to last until the follow
ing spring-six months. This state of
affairs continued for nearly ten years.
We have houses in st. Paul now that
sell more goods in single day, during
the fall season, than retailer in 1851,
'5S or 80, then doing business in st.
Paul, sold during the entire year. The
annual sales of dry goods in those days
did not exceed, in the entire city, $780,
900. To-day the wholesale houses
alone sell upwards of $4,000
OW, and retail houses are do
ing about one third as much.
Later on, in 1860, some of the retail
houses, seeing that the surrounding
counties were filling up, prepared to
sell some goods at wholesale. This
state of things, carrying wholesale and
retail stock together, lasted until 1868,
when few of our retailers, seeing that
the field was promising, went into the
wholesale business exclusively. The
trade from that time up to date has
constantly been growing, and will, by
reason Of the new regions being opened,
tributary to st. Paul, continue to do so
for many years to come on a much
larger scale. The road recently built
by the Manitoba to Helena opens up a
field that will rapidly develop, and being
distinctly tributary to st. Paul, will i'll
crease our wholesale trade very mate
rally. Ifeel reasonably sure that the
jobbing trade of st. Paul is to-day in its
infancy, and in less than twenty-five
years it will be doing as large business
as Chicago is. We have set of wide
awake, active and energetic jobbers in
our midst, who will see to it that the int
erests of st. Paul do not suffer.
MAURICE AUERBACH.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
THE
RETAILER


RETAILER been very good, better
than during any pre-
OF ST. PAUL. ceding year. This is
due to the general
growth of the city, and the carnival has
especially had very stimulating indu-
ence. The retail merchant probably
has received more benefit from the car
niyal than from any other source. [
would give $500 rather than see a year
without a carnival.
The one great thing the city needs
to-day, however, is better class of
buildings for the retailer. If some syn
dictate would go ahead and put up few
fine business blocks along the principal
thOroughfares, there would be plenty of
merchants anxious to take the first
floors. Every enterprising merchant
can afford to pay the rental of good
buildings, for beautiful building is
always big advertisement for the mer-
chant doing business in it. 1t is attract
i've to his customers and affords every
facility and convenience for his trade.
Our merchants are, however, to GER
tain extent behind the times. We have
but few metropolitan stores. The sue
cess of the merchant depends upon his
enterprise. He must advertise, push
ahead, and take up every new adyan-
tage. In short, he should keep up with
the spirit of the times, and give up the
old fOgy ideas of the mast.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

various fuel companies of the city, four
in number, which were organized but ten
years ago by well-known st. Paul men
for the purpose of supplying the then
limited local wants of st. Paul and Min
neapolis with coal.
To keep pace with the wonderful
growth of the cities and the country
tributary thereto these companies have
gradually extended their business until
now they employ an aggregate capital
Of over 5000, 900, and are distributing
coal all over the vast territory en-
braced in the states of Wisconsin,
Minnesota, northern part of Hi
nois, Iowa, Nebraska and the
territories of Dakota, Montana and the
province Of Manitoba at the rate of over
100000 tons Of coal per month during
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
PAST,
PRESENT,
FUTURE.

Its OF the United states.
Now there are miles enough to span the
earth five times, with a sufficient sur
plus to reach from Alaska to Florida.
These persons lived before there was a
steamboat upon the great lakes or the
Mississippi river. Then there were but
four points known to commerce on the
river: New Orleans, st. Louis, Prairie
du Chen and St.Peter'S, (nOw Mendota)
and at this day the four leading cities
are New Orleans, st. Louis, st. Paul and
Minneapolis. Prairie du Chen and
Mendoza subsidized when the Indian
trade ceased. Detroit, Chicago and st.
Louis were known to these old settlers
when they were mere trading posts, at
which time Michigan, Northern Illinois,
and all North and West, were peopled
by the red men. The mail was carried
on horseback once week from Detroit
via Chicago to Prairie du Chen. Corn
was burnt for fuel by many of the few
settlers in Southern and Middle Illinois.
The supplies for the Upper Mississippi
came in Mackinaw boats and bark
canoes via the great lakes, Fox and Wis
consln rivers. They were also taken by
this route down the Mississippi, up the
Missouri to the Yellowstone, and furs
were sent to the East via the same routes.
Then it took the entire season of open
water to make the round trip from
Mackinaw to the Yellowstone; the trip
can now be made by rail between the
two points in three days. In Detroit,
Chicago and st. Louis real estate was
valueless, or nearly so, and when sold 1t
was sometimes sold as personal property;
deeds of conveyance were seldom given.
In 1910 Chicago had 4.479 inhabitants.
Then st. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth
were not in existence. The first per-
ceptive change in Chicago's growth was
when the first shipment of grain was
made from her port, and when the rail-
roads were slowly creeping westward.
She soon became the greatest wheat
market in the world, and it was sup
posed she would hold the position for
all time, but the most wonderful change
known i'll the history of commerce oc-
Cured when Duluth, the young Her
cules of the North, surpassed her in the
receipts and shipments of this cereal.
AS late as 1857 Minnesota imported all
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

shows that this city has at last begun
TO realize the Importance of this feature
Of industrial life, and henceforth st.
Paul will take rank with the leading
manufacturing cities of the continent.
Our statistical showing gives the equally
gratifying assurance that the vast mill
ing and numbering interests of Mime
apolis are still abreast with the progress
of all cur Northwestern development.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
LITERA-
TURE IN
THE LE-
GAL PRO-
FESSION.

=
through the gorgeous
periods of the jeremiads of THOMAS
CARLYLE,yet we must concede that that
''four-Square" and heroic apostle Of sys-
tematized cynicism voiced grand
thought when, SO long ago as 1929, in
his admirable essay,"V oltaire,' he said:
"Could ambition always choose its own
path, and were will in human undertake
ings synonymous with faculty, all truly
ambitious men would be men of letters"
And it was the brilliant Mr.. BURKE who
said, in speaking of friend: Gle was
bred to the law, which is, in my opinion
one of the first and noblest of human
sciences; a science which does more to
quicken and invigorate the understand
ing than all other kinds of learning put
together, but which is not apt, save in
persons very happily born, to open and
liberalize the mind in the same proper.
ton; and it is because of the fact that
the study and practice of the profession
tend to narrowing of the mind, that il
must be broadened and cathollcized by
less artificial thought; for you shall soon
cease to know HERCULES by his foot. if
it be kept cramped and baEdaged like
that of Chinese wOman."
Not that the lawyer who neglects let
ters may not attain to professional
eminence, but that success, and more
especially that exalted measure of sue.
cess that is sought by him who is truly
welded to his profession, is best at.
tanned by an intimate knowledge of the
classics in polite literature.
In no profession is the demand for
thorough education and varied scholas-
tic attachments so great, SO crucially ex.
acting, as that of the law, and it may al.
ways be accepted as postulate that
the lawyer who in his habit OF study is
content to wade in the shadows of mere
professional rule and formula will never
swim in the depths beyond. He will
have become a mental dwarf and pro.
fessiOnal groove runner-merely tyr0
and legal sciolist. He will never get to
the head of the procession, but will
struggle painfully on-the young man
of aspiration, rather than inspiration.
More especially is this true of the law
yer who would become an advocate, for
that if the advocate would extol or re-
buke, moralize Or rhapsodize as occa.
sion may demand, his mind must be
laden with the rich spoil and full
sheaves that are only captured by fire.
quent and thoughtful incursions into
the realms of polite literature,
The tendency of modern legal educa-
tion:in the United States is not i'll the line
of an iquarian research through musty,
tones. ''Petere fontes guam sectari
rivules" is an excellent maxim, but the !
busy lawyer of to-day has not the time.
to sit with Piscator and Venator angling
n the streams of black-lettered antiquity. |
Happily,too, for the profession, the time
has passed when the young man who |
has ''done winters chores for some
camel-backed justice of the peace, and
whose sole capita! Is an acquaintance
with the ''three Rs" good moral char
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

grain, the territory tribu-
tary to this commercial center is one of
the best grain-producing regions in the
world, but we have little facility for the
grinding and storage of grain. Should
some enterprising citizens get together
and invest in the erection of some large
Touring mills. it would result in making
st. Paul great grain market. This
would have its influence upon capital
and heighten the Importance of st. Paul
as commercial and railroad center.
The putting up of elevators and mills
would give employment to large num-
Der of workingmen, which would in
crease the population of the city and
add to the consuming element, to the
benefit of both merchant and manu-
facturer. Grain producers and grain
buyers would ship to st. Paul instead Of
elsewhere, and certainly a great grain
market must have direct influence
upon the tendency of railroad building
and the channels of commercial and
manufacturing capital. 1t would bene-
fit more or less every other kind of bust
ness. The objection that our water
power is insufficient is ridiculous ex-
cuse when held up to the light of mod
ern mechanical improvements, the at
tainments of steam, and the possibilities
of electricity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
THE RETAIL TRADE.

1t would be a surprise if the retail
trade did not show signs of remarkable
activity when everything else is pushing
ahead with such phenomenal speed.
The evidence of the great prosperity in
the retail business is given in our state
ment of the remarkably large number
of new firms that have opened up dur
ing the year, and of the comparatively
small number that have gone out of
business
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
MANUFACTURES.

A gratifying feature of the industrial
development of both cities is the rapid
upbuilding of manufacturing establish
ments. The progress in this direction
is particularly marked in st. Paul,
where heretofore, In the race for COM
merc;al supremacy, the manufacturing
interests have been neglected. The
manufacturing record for the past year
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
GOOD HEALTH,

The health statistics likewise develop
the fact that the Twin Metropoli OF
the Northwest are singularly blessed
in their healthy conditions. A pure at,
mosphere, good water, excellent drain
age and effective sanitary regulations
combine to make this the healthieSt spot
ON thp UlObp
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
THE BUILDING RECORD.

AS has already been published in the
GLOBE, the building record for the year
bears most substantial testimony to the
solidity of our business prosperity.
During the year over s11,000,0G0 have
been invested in buildings in this city
alone, while our sister city shows up
with a correSpondingly good record.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
FORM A
CHORAL
SOCIETY.

running; a small efficient
orchestra furnished the music for one,
and temporary resident orchestra for
the other. In 1859 the Pioneer Guard
brass band was organized. 1t was part
of military company, whose name it
bore until the following year, when it
became Independent and adopted the
name of the Great Western band. This
name is as familiar as household words
with the old settler. We have now two
other large military bands which DO
credit to the city. In 1868 the st. Paul
Musical society, composed of some
twenty good amateur and professional
musicians, was organized, with Mr.. G.
Holterhoff as its director. For sixteen
years this organization contributed to
the pleasure and elevated the musical
taste of this and surrounding cities. A
number of choral societies have been
organized here, and such celebrated
oratorios as THE Creation" Messiah"
and others have been given with great
credit. Our present church music will
compare favorably with that of any
other city. We have every facility for
the teaching of vocal and instrumental
music, and our teachers are among the
best in the United States. [ believe that
we have as many good and well-trained
voices here as in any other city, and it
seems to me possible that we could form
a large choral society, numbering from
100 to 200 voices, or even more, and
equal to the Handel and Haydn So
ciety, of Boston, and the New York
Vocal society. Such an association, to-
gether with what excellent orchestra we
could command, would be an organiZa-
ti0p uncurpoccad onyxyharp
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
TO.DAY'S WEATHER.

SIGNAL OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT. ST.
PAUL, Dec. %. 1918 a. m.-Indications for
the twenty -four hours commencing att a. m.
to-day: For ST. Paul, Minneapolis and vicinity:
Local SHOWS; warmer, followed by colder
Sunday night, and light TO fresh variable
winds. For Minnesota and Dakota: Local
SHOWS; warmer, followed by colder weather,
and light 10 fresh variable winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
ST. PAUL, Dec. 24.-The following observa-
tions were made al S:4s p. m, local time:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
LOW TAXES.

Among the many tempting induce
ments to strangers to invest their money
in the Twin Cities is the low tax rate.
That is the surest evidence of sound
and economical administration of mu-
,,ioinaI affairs
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
THE NEW
NORTH
WEST.


few years may be as we'll
WEST. Illustrated by the ship
mentS of grain from the
territory where the greatest develop
ment has occurred as by any other
method; and this is particularly true
for the reason that the production of
grain is greater in value than all the
other articles produced by the people of
this section. For the year ending June
so, 1879, the st. Paul & Pacific railway,
covering about $50 miles, brought to
market something over 1000, 900 bushels
of wheat; and from the crop of 1887. with
say 1900 miles of railway. it brought to
market about 34,000,O00 bushels Of
wheat, or nearly seventeen times the
crop of 1878 and 1879. The official
figures will show that the amount of
wheat shipped from the crop of 1881
from this one roads greater than all the
wheat received from all the roads rum
ming into Chicago and Milwaukee COM
bined. This shows an enormous in
crease in the productive acreage of the
country served by this line. and the
same causes during the period named
have more or less affected the lines of
other companies.
While the greatest development has
been in the direction of wheat, there
has at the same time been an enormous
increase in the production of other
grains and stock. constituting the in
creased wealth of the country opened
during that period.
J. ]. HILL.
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AMARkE1
FOR LIVE
STOCK.

will furnish the best market for the
hogs and cattle raised in the large terri
tory tributary to this city. They will
encourage the raising of live stock in
Minnesota, Dakota and Iowa, and will
probably do more to diversity the farm
ing interests of the Northwestern states
than anything else. This class of bust
ness having done so much for Chicago
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
LEWIS BAKER.

The GLOBE Press Room is Open Every
NIGHT to oil Advertisers who desire 10
Convince Themselves that the GLOBE has
the largest Circulation of any News
euper Northwest of Chicago.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

What st. Paul does in
the way of supplying the
wants of the great West
and Northwest with coal
will doubtless be of in
terest to all. 1t is well
illustrated by the growth
of the hiISInaSc of tho
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

ST. PAUL GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
DAILY (EoT INCLUDING SUNDAr.)
/ VI in advance. SO 90 3m. in adyaneeS2 %
GIN. in advance. 20 weeks III adv. w
One month. ...IOc.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

DAILY AND SUNDAY.
1vr in advanceS10 co 3 mos. in adv 81 81
6m, inadyance 5 90 weeks in adv. %
One month. 49,. Soc.
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SUNDAY ALONE.
1yrin advance. 81 90 3 mos. in adv. SOC
6 IA. in advance. l 90 l mo. in adv. 2Oc
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ToA 'E~xNA

| should say that this
year marks a new era in
the business growth and
prosperity of the city of
st. Paul. The packing
interests centering here
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

-(Daily- Monday Weonesday
and Friday.)
1yTin advance 81 90 mos in adv: - W
Smouihs in advance ISL w.
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dictate employment for 1000 additional
workmen.
There are some enterprising real es-
tate men still offering inducements in
land and capital to manufacturers to
bring their industries here, but think
the time or necessity for Offering such
inducements is fast passing-for with
the progress now making, and which
cannot be checked, it will not long be
necessary to even invite them to field
So fruitful
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
WEEKLY ST. PAUL GLoEE.
Le Year, 81 Six Mo-. Csc Three Mo-, 3oG

Rejected communications cannot be pre-
served. Address all letters and kilograms TO
THE GLOBE, st. Paul, Mimi.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

and Kansas City, the question naturally
arises, what may it not do for st. Paul?
In my opinion it will increase the popu-
lation of st. Paul within the next two
years from this source alone over 10000.
will double its manufacturing outputI
and, no doubt, within a few years it
will be as important business factor
in this city as in the two other cities
mentioned.
QAl1GaAho1t
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

There are persons re-
siding in this city who
lived before there was a
railroad within the linn
IFS of the United States,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
CRMG;rx<

Commencing with 1880.
when st. Paul had a pop
ulation of IL, 900, and fol-
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Thirty years ago there
was not an established
musical organization OF
rank in st. Paul, although
in 1857 two theaterS were
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

While we do not admit
the truth of, nor the d.
tactical value frequently
ascribed to the atrabilious
philos ophy run nj in g
fhrnnnr1 Tho rarnoo,,o
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
4;.f&&[s>nn

The jobbers of st.
Paul have no reason to
feel dissatisfied with the
results of 1887, and, as to-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

The railroad develop
ment north and west of
st. Paul during the past
few years may be as well
illustrated by the ship
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MHu4S~
NEED OF

NEED OF The need of Touring
mills is to-day the great
FIGURING est public demand of the
city. We have every ia
MILLS. cility for the shipping of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
&n1e--os~

Generally the retail
trade in st. Paul has
been very good, better
than during any pre-